Re: Dtrace probes documentation

Joshua Tolley <eggyknap@gmail.com> writes:
> The dtrace probes documentation [1] spells each probe name with dashes
> ("transaction-start", "transaction-commit", etc.). Yet as far as I can see,
> dtrace only works if you spell the probe names with double underscores
> ("transaction__start", "transaction__commit", etc.). Why the discrepancy?

Read 26.4.3 and .4.  I don't know why they have this bizarre set of
conventions, but the single-hyphen version is the spelling
most visible to end users.
        regards, tom lane